Past workshops and Lecturers

 
 

While the final program for Kyoto Startup Summer School doesn’t get fixed until few weeks before the program, here are some of the content that has been part of previous KS³s, and you can expect many of them to be included in the future.

Multi-day workshop

  • Design Thinking - Identifying Entrepreneurial Opportunities

  • Lean Startup

Half-day workshops

  • Build your Landing Page in 2 hours

  • Digital Prototyping

  • From idea to market: How to use the Business Model Canvas to create your business model

  • How to create and share your startup story

  • Innovation meets profit - how to start thinking about your business

  • Introduction to CAD and Fusion 360

  • Introduction to Woodworking - Hacking IKEA

  • Introduction to Software Product Development

  • Mechatronic Prototyping with Arduino

  • Product Management Workshop

  • The Brainstorming Workshop

Lectures

  • Algorithms powering the modern Internet

  • Benchmarking the Future

  • Brand names: What, why, and how

  • Creating a Startup Culture

  • Crowdfunding: a new era beyond the gadget

  • Design Entrepreneurship & Crowdfunding: An introduction to Kickstarter for designers

  • Developing Digital Products

  • Entrepreneurial Opportunities with FinTechs & Blockchain

  • Entrepreneurship in Japan and the US, similarities and differences

  • Events as a Growth Strategy

  • Frugal Startup Videography

  • Fundraising strategies at startups

  • Global Marketing for Startups

  • How to Advertise Your Startup, Effectively

  • How to be the next generation entrepreneurs in the new era of AI and Robotics

  • How to deliver an awesome startup pitch

  • How to run an awesome crowdfunding campaign

  • How to start a hardware company

  • How to start a service company

  • How to start a web service company

  • Introduction of Accounting and Tax for Startups

  • Introduction to Venture Capital and Startup Fundraising

  • Investor-Startup Relations

  • Legal tips and IP management for startups

  • Performance-based Marketing

  • Practical AI via examples

  • Raise That Money

  • Scaling your brand through platforms

  • Starting Up: Are you truly prepared?

  • Taking advantage of the startup ecosystem: working with accelerators

  • The benefits of a network and how to build one

  • The ins and outs of the venture challenge

  • The Reality of Starting Up Today

  • Things You Need to Know about Hardware Startups

  • Upcoming Technology Trends

  • What is your Theory of Change: The heart of social entrepreneurship

  • Where is the Money?